leus, this Is what I'm thinking as well !:
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I am guessing is a virus or worm of
the type W32/mimail family that copies
your email addresses and uses its own engine to send emails.
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These guys are getting pretty nasty these days, eh? It's not like you can shut them down in task manager either, if you don't know what you doing ahead of time, they reboot the OS before you can get to any serious reg editing!
I have had two people now that we had to completely reformat and rebuild the MBR on one,( although I think that was my fault lol) because we could not even use safe mode, scan from the command console, or even get an online started.
I just want people to know that there is getting to be big money behind some of these internet attacks and spamming, and identity theifs are using some extremely sophisticated stuff to con people because they are already inside their comuters! and can run spoofed Paypal and eBay site etc claiming to need "credit card number' for validation and such.
It is now a fact of life that these types are at war with the people who try to stop them: Govt. sites, and Anti-virus companies, network security firms, and all else. This is not kid stuff anymore when seasoned techs can't even debug their own machine, and DDoS's are being carried out thousands of times a week against Internet service providers and corporate giants of technology.
It is just something ti keep in mind next time you try to sign in to hotmail, or go to a big site and there are problems with it or it is down. It is not only hurting yourself by slowing your own computer to a crawl, they are stealing lives( identities) and disrupting daily life for all of us, and there is a lot of anger around sometimes about people not being vigilant. I do not agree one bit with anymore (I used to be a snob sniff lol) but is just a measure of what is going on.
I am busier doing tech work now than I ever have been
, it just seems way different than it was even nine months ago.
I am overreacting mayhaps just a bit, but is something to be aware of all the time now, and gerhard, people have lost their service and the right to have accounts on providers just because they were being used as the scource unknowingly.
Well, that's my typing lesson for today!
And I want to stress again that gerhard is A OK with me, I am just spouting off, but I'am happy for you to post this here so we could all help and learn!
Hey, we might've been the first to report something last week, although trendmicro never sent a reply so ..I am still interested to find out your Windows version and see how this goes.
Yhanks gerhard :)